Electronic drawing

[fishwater71]

Gotta get this one done also. Have no clue where to begin as we did nothing like this in class this semester. There are no measurements on the entire thing, do I make them up as I go. Really have no clue here. Due on Monday so I got all weekend. Thanks.

 

ELECTRONIC drawing.pdf

[ReMark]

It is a schematic which mean there is no scale per se. As long as you get it to fit on the paper and inside your title block and border you're good to go.

 

Hint: Objects that repeat (like the ground) should be drawn once, turned into a block, then used throughout the rest of the drawing.

 

What size paper will you be plotting this to? 8 1/2x11? Never mind. I just saw the paper size noted at the bottom (letter).

[fishwater71]

Ok. That gets me going. Thanks again Remark.

[fishwater71]

It is a schematic which mean there is no scale per se. As long as you get it to fit on the paper and inside your title block and border you're good to go.

 

Hint: Objects that repeat (like the ground) should be drawn once, turned into a block, then used throughout the rest of the drawing.

 

What size paper will you be plotting this to? 8 1/2x11? Never mind. I just saw the paper size noted at the bottom (letter).

 

Never have used block, but it seems fairly simple. I was just looking at it....thanks for the tip.

[ReMark]

You can create a block for the "filled in dots" using the Donut command.

 

The sawtooth objects are resistors. Make a block.

 

Objects labeled C123 I believe are contacts. Make a block.

 

The continuous "half-moons" I think are coils.

 

Open circles might be terminals.

 

Then there are the upside down triangle shapes made up of line segments (decreasing in length). Those would be a ground. Make a block.

 

Wires should have their own layer; so should the "symbols". Text as well.

[ReMark]

Never have used block, but it seems fairly simple. I was just looking at it....thanks for the tip.

Well it's about time you learned.

 

Create all blocks on layer 0. That way, when inserted on another layer they will take on the color and linetype of the layer they are inserted on. Also make sure your block insertion or basepoint is located on some part of the block's geometry and not off in space or located at 0,0 (classic mistakes by newbies).

 

Here's a sample block you can play with. It was saved in AutoCAD 2000 file format. The size is arbitrary on my part. Download it and use the Insert command to get it into a new drawing. Have fun.

 

DemoBlock.dwg

[ReMark]

fishwater: How goes the battle? You making any headway on your electrical schematic?

[JD Mather]

Most of these schematic symbols are already created for you as blocks within your Design Center in AutoCAD, simply a matter of placing the blocks and connecting them together.

 

This should have been covered in your class.

In fact, you should have been shown how to add attributes to your blocks for an assignment like this.

 

On your Insert tab>

 

 

There is more than one file of these blocks.

 

Too bad I didn't see this thread 3 days ago. Work fast.

[ReMark]

I don't think the student will find the blocks shown by using the Design Center and even if he open his Tool Palettes and looked there (on the Electrical tab) he still won't find all the symbols used in the diagram. This is a good opportunity for a student to get acquainted with the BLOCK command in my opinion.

[JD Mather]

I have my students start with these blocks and edit them for our needs - a good way for starting with blocks.

By the end we are embedding Attributes and Extracting the attributes to tables.

 

Several (one of them a freshman) passed the AutoCAD 2014 Certified Professional exam a couple of weeks ago.

[ReMark]

I think a student should know how to create a block from scratch. Once that is covered then you can move on to the use of BEDIT. After that you introduce attribute creation and such things as attribute extraction and the use of BATTMAN.